Hobart adds a fourth member to K-9 squad

The newest member of the city’s police department is adept at tracking down and cornering suspects and is trained to sniff out both prescription and illegal drugs.

His name is Fax, and he’s a 4-year-old Belgian Tervuren.

Fax’s handler, police officer Ryan Snedecor, and police officer Simon Gresser, who is in charge of the force’s K-9 team, introduced Fax to the Board of Works at its meeting Wednesday night.

Gresser said Fax’s cost was covered by donations received from city businesses through a fundraising effort. He said the dog — which originally was a sport dog — and Snedecor went through five weeks of in-house training instead of the usual outside training.

“Ryan is my first protege,” said Gresser, who wants to do all future training in-house as well.

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